Word: ploy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suitcases and hidden in the false bottoms of automobiles, lire are being smuggled out of Italy at the rate of more than $200 million a month. In any other nation, such a capital flight might lead to alarm or panic. In Italy it is recognized as only another ingenious ploy to cheat the tax collector. No one really worries, because the fleeing lira usually returns to Italy wearing a disguise...
Abstraction in art seemed to reach some sort of apogee when Kasimir Malevich painted White on White. But Paul Taylor, an avant-garde dancer, may have topped that ploy by choreographing stillness: he once fashioned a dance called Duet in which a cocktail-party couple stood stock still for four minutes. He has composed dances to the sound of rain, and he has taken a collection of human postures and set them to the chant of the telephone operator - "At the tone the time will be . . ." The whole thing lasted 20 minutes, longer than a good many of the audience...
...still smarting from the defeat he suffered when the Federal Government forced the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi last fall, has apparently not abandoned his intention to make Mr. Meredith's stay at the university as short and unhappy as possible. The Governor's latest ploy, still in the discussion stage, is to ask the Federal courts for permission to expel Mr. Meredith for having violated a university directive against "inflammatory remarks" by students...
...unleashing a wave of neo-Stalinism? Was the delay caused by the reported heart attack of the party's second secretary, Hard-Liner Frol Kozlov (TIME, May 10), whose tough hand might be needed on the spot to draft the orders for a cultural crackdown? Was it another ploy against Red China...
...President-suppression, concealment, distortion, false weighing of facts-and Krock says that Kennedy has employed them all. But it is in the field of indirect management of news that the President has moved "with subtlety and imagination for which there is no historic parallel known to me." A favorite ploy is to claim unpopular decisions are "in line with or compelled by policies adopted by the Eisenhower Administration." In the foreign policy area, another much used gambit is to arbitrarily claim a questionable act is necessary "to prevent a confrontation with Soviet Russia likely to result in nuclear...